Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885,
Webster Co.
THOMAS B. PAYNE was born in Maury County, Tenn., February 2, 1843, a son of
Cornelius and Lousia A. (Walton) Payne, natives of Virginia.  Cornelius
Payne was married in his native State, where he was engaged in
merchandising for many years.  About 1817 or 1818 he moved to Tennessee,
where he engaged in teaching in connection with farming until 1850, when he
moved to Logan County, Ky., where he farmed about five years.  In 1855 he
removed to Hopkins County, and bought a farm near Nebo, where he remained
about fourteen years.  He then sold out and bought another farm in the same
neighborhood upon which he resided until his death in September, 1876, in
his eighty-eighth year.  He and wife were life long memers of the Primitive
Baptist Church, of which he was a regularly ordained minister for more than
half of a century.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was a veteran
of the war of 1812.  Thomas B. was employed on his father's farm until he
attained his majority, and then farmed the home place on shares until 1869,
when he engaged in general merchandising at Providence, Webster Co., Ky.,
where he has since been in business.  He carries a stock of about $8,000,
and is doing a flourishing business, with yearly sales of about $20,000.
When he opened his store at Providence he also engaged in the hotel and
livery business there; still carries on the latter business but gave up the
hotel in June, 1884.  In 1877 he erected a large tobacco stemmery at
Providence, and has since been extensively engaged in the tobacco trade in
connection with his other business.  He is also engaged in farming to some
extent.  He was married, February 24, 1864, to Miss Isabella E. Herrin, a
native of Webster County, Ky., and daughter of Jackson Herrin, one of the
earliest pioneers of what is now Webster County.  Seven children have been
born to them, four of whom - two sons and two daughters - are living.  Mr.
Payne is a Democrat.Payne Walton Herrin=Maury-TN VA Logan Hopkins
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Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Barren County.
DR. CARTER W. BIGGERS was born August 28, 1840, in Monroe County, Ky.,
where he grew up. In his thirty-third year he removed to Barren County,
where he has since resided.  His father, George W. Biggers, was born May
3, 1800, in Virginia, and was for years a physician. He died December
31, 1876.  He was a son of William Biggers, who was a native of Ireland.
George W. Biggers married, about 1830, Nancy, daughter of Thomas and
Pricilla (Evans) Sabens. To their union were born James T., Carter W.,
Mary S. (Frazier), Eva (Reynolds), and George W. Dr. Biggers married,
June 30, 1864, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Julia (Ferguson) Payne.
To them were born Millard F., Estella J. (deceased), and Alonzo.  Dr.
Biggers began, when eighteen years of age, to teach, since which time he
has been making his own way in the world.  For the first three years he
paid his salary to his father; then for two years taught on his own
account before beginning the study of medicine.  After two years' study
under the preceptorship of Dr. J W. Reynolds, he entered the medical
department of the University of Louisville, where on account of
sickness, he only remained a short time. Afterward he entered Ohio
Medical School for one session, in 1865, after which he immediately
commenced the practice of his profession at Sulphur Lick, Monroe County,
and has since continued the practice with more than average success. He
is the owner of 200 acres of well improved and productive land in a fine
state of cultivation.  He is a member, with his whole family, of the
Baptist Church; is a thoroughly self-made man, and politically he is a Democrat.
Biggers Evans Ferguson Frazier Payne Reynolds Sabens=
Ireland Louisville-Jefferson Monroe OH VA
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Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Barren County.
HEZEKIAH A. JORDAN was born September 6, 1824, in the house where he now
resides and has always resided, in Barren County, Ky.  His father,
Samuel Jordan, a native of Albemarle County, Va., was born September 3,
1781, removed to Kentucky in 1807, was a brick-maker and mason,
constructing many good homes in Barren County, and died August 13, 1827.
He was married, March 13, 1806, to Polly, daughter of Col. Samuel and
Susan (Preyer) Murrell, of Albemarle County (born April 9, 1785, died
June 25, 1865), and their offspring are Susan F., (Preston), Mary J.
(Rodes), Martha A. (deceased), Eliza (Rodes), Samuel, Caroline (Cockrill
and Payne), John, James, subject and Emily A. (deceased).  Our subject
obtained a good education for the times, at the old style schools of his
day, and is a reading man.  He was married, December 19, 1844, to Miss
America, daughter of James and Frances E. (Foster) Carden, of Barren
County (born August 4, 1824), and to them have been born Samuel J.,
Christopher C., (deceased), William H., Mary F. (Rogers), Mattie B.
(Fant) and Susan E. (Read).  Subject is a farmer by vocation, owning 430
acres of well improved and productive land, in good condition, and in a
high state of cultivation.  He is an active member of the Old School
Presbyterian Church, and also of the K. of P.  In politics he is an old
line Whig in principle, a strong Union man, and lost eighteen slaves by
the late war.
Jordan Carden Cockrill Fant Foster Murrell Payne Preston Preyer Read RodesRogers
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Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.  Barren County.
CAPT. JAMES M. SIMMONS was born November 2, 1839, in Monroe County, Ky.,
where he grew up, and in 1866 removed to his present residence in Barren
County.  October 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Ninth Kentucky
Volunteers, with which he served for about eighteen months; first as
private, later as sergeant, and finally as second lieutenant, which
position he held until at the petition of Company G he was transferred
to that company, of which he served as captain for nearly two years.  He
was engaged in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary
Ridge, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain and Lovejoy Station, besides a
large number of minor battles and skirmishes.  His father, Wyley J.
Simmons, was born May 5, 1806, within about one mile of the present site
of Fountain Run, Ky.  There, with the exception of three years spent in
Illinois, he afterward lived; and there he died in April, 1873.  He was
one of the prominent men of his section, and was a son of Naysa Simmons,
of North Carolina, who immigrated to Kentucky in 1805, and located on
the land where his son and grandson were afterward born.  He was of
English descent.  Wyley J. Simmons married, in April, 1830, Mary T. W.
Dossey, who was born about 1813, and bore him the following children:
Telitha A. E. (Pardue), Sarah E. (deceased), William (deceased), James
M., Saysa H., [sic - Naysa] Narcissa E. (deceased), Mary S. (Kincheloe)
and Parmelia E. (Perkins).  Capt. Simmons married, October 12, 1865,
Sarah E., daughter of Emory P. and Elizabeth (Holsclaw) Denham.  She was
born July 8, 1843, and to their union have been born Mary E. (Payne),
Genia E., Emory W., Zion P., Lucy D., Zorah B. and William M.  Capt.
Simmons is a farmer, and was one of the assistant marshals for the
purpose of taking the census.  He is one of the solid men of his
section, and in politics is a Republican.
Simmons Denham Dossey Holsclaw Kincheloe Pardue Payne Perkins=
Fountain_Run-Monroe IL NC
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hancock Co.
ALBERT C. HOWE, Hancock County, was born at Hanover, Ind., October 9, 1835,
son of Eliakim and Sarah (Dean) Howe.  The father was born in New Hampshire
in 1786.  The mother was born in Virginia, May 20, 1809.  The father, when
about twenty years of age, removed to New York, where he followed the trade
of millwright about fifteen years and then moved to Ohio, remained two
years, and then moved to Indiana, settling in Jefferson County, remaining
until 1844 working at his trade and then came to Kentucky, settling at
Lewisport.  Here he followed carpentering until his death, which occurred
October 16, 1846.  He had been identified with the Universalist Church.
His widow died May 20, 1876.  Subject was the fifth of a family of seven
children, of whom three are now living: Andrew J., at Paducah, Ky.; Guy D.,
at Evansville, Ind., and Albert C.  The last named received his schooling
in the county.  He worked on a farm until twenty years of age, and then
began clerking in a store at Lewisport.  He followed this business about
five years, and next opened a saddle and harness shopp at Grandview, Ind.,
in 1867.  In 1869 he returned to Lewisport, Ky., where he followed farming
until 1878, when he opened a grocery store.  He now handles a stock about
$1,000.  He was appointed postmaster at Lewisport in 1876, and is still
holding the office.  He has also served as village trustee a number of
times.  Mr. Howe was married in December, 1869, to Miss Martha J., a
daughter of Ben E. and Nancy J. (Gabbert) Morgan.  The father was born in
Indiana; the mother in Kentucky.  Mrs. Howe was born in 1854 and to her has
been given six children: Alberta R., Mabel M., Jesse, Eliakim B., Oscar and
L. Cobb.  Mr. and Mrs. Howe are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South.  He is a member of the Lewisport Lodge, No. 303, A.F. & A.M.  Mr.
Howe enlisted in Company H, of the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, United States
army, on August 15, 1862, under Capt. W. L. Payne.  He remained in service
until September, 1865.  Most of his army life was spent on the skirmish
line in east Tennessee.  He was captured at Philadelphia, Tenn., October
20, 1863, and was confined at Belle Island and Richmond, Va., until May 7,
1864.  He was then paroled and removed to Camp Chase, Ohio, until January,
1865.  He then re-entered service at Camp Nelson, Ky., and remained until
the close of the war.Howe Dean Gabbert Morgan Payne=NH VA NY OH Jefferson-IN TN
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hancock Co.
DR. W. T. PRENTIS, Hancock County, was born in Petersburgh, Va., November
18, 1820, to James and Lucy W. (Baugh) Prentis.  The father was born in
Virginia, in about 1796.  Subject's grandfather, William Prentis, was born
in London, England; he was a printer by trade and edited the "Virginia
Gazette and Petersburgh Intelligencer", one of the first papers ever
published in the colonies.  He was at one time mayor of the city of
Petersburgh.  The father grew to manhood in Virginia, and was educated for
the law, being a graduate of William and Mary's College, but never followed
his profession.  In 1845 he came to Kentucky and settled in Hancock County,
owning at one time about 650 acres, and half of the lots in the original
plat of the village of Lewisport.  He was also magistrate in the county for
some years, engaged in mercantile pursuits for a short time.  He died April
15, 1874.  The mother was also born in Petersburgh, Va., in 1800, and died
in this county, August 28, 1865.  Subject was the eldest in a family of ten
children, of whom four are now living: W. T., A. B., in Petersburgh, Va.;
Robert C., in Lewisport; and Margaret J.  Our subject received his
schooling at Petersburgh, Va.; read medicine with Dr. Walter F. Jones for
one year and then attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia, graduating in the class of 1844.  In December of that year he
came to Lewisport, Ky., and entered upon the practice of his profession.
He remained at that point until 1849, and then moved to Yelvington, Daviess
County, remained one year and then returning to Lewisport, he remained five
years.  His next move was to Bloomfield, Nelson County, where he practiced
two years and then again returned to Lewisport.  In 1862 he moved to
Folsomville, Ind.  In 1870 he again came back to Lewisport and remained
until 1873, and then moved again to Yelvington, Ky.  After practicing a
short time he came back to Hancock County and practiced until 1877, when he
again moved to Lewisport, where he has since remained.  Dr. Prentis was
married, in 1846, to Miss Maria, daughter of Joseph Stephens, of Bullitt
County, Ky.  This lady was born in Bullitt County, Ky., and died at
Yelvington, in 1850.  Subject was next married, in 1855, to Miss Sallie,
daughter of George and Nancy (Connelley) Duncan.  This lady died in 1857.
The third marriage of Dr. Prentis was in December, 1859, to Miss Anne,
daughter of Caleb and Lucy W. (Payne) Butler.  Mrs. Prentis was born in
Albion, Edwards Co., Ill., in March, 1836, and to her have been born six
children: Earnest, at Golconda, Ill.; Halleck, Boisseau, William, Lucy and
Robert B.  Mr. and Mrs. Prentis are members of the Baptist Church.  He has
been a member of the S. of T. and G. T. fraternities and has also served as
school examiner for Hancock County for a number of years.
Prentis Baugh Jones Stephens Duncan Connelley Butler Payne=
VA England Daviess-KY Nelson-KY IN Bullitt-KY Edwards-IL
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Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.  Metcalfe County.
ALVIN C PILE was born July 10, 1845, in Fentress County, Tenn., where he
resided until seventeen years of age, and in 1862 removed to Owen
County, Ind. He was a member of Company I, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for over a year during
the late war.  His father, William Pile, was born March 12, 1810, also
in Fentress County, Tenn., where he died in October, 1877.  He was a son
of Conrad Pile, who was born about 1773, in Virginia, and was of German
descent.  William Pile was twice married; first, in 1832, to Narcissa,
daughter of Thomas and Priscilla (Evins) Sibins, of Fentress County,
Tenn.  From this union sprang Thomas, Daniel (deceased), George,
Priscilla (Johnson), Martha (Cooper), Mary (Anderson), Vina (Sibins),
Elizabeth (Meadows), Adelphia and Alvin C.  His second marriage took
place, in 1860, with Mary, daughter of Joseph Davidson. To them were
born Jasper and Altie.  Alvin C. married, January 2, 1868, Minerva A.,
daughter of John and Julia (Ferguson) Payne, of Monroe County.  To them
have been born Lindsey T., George V., Older (deceased) and Alonzo
(deceased).  Mr. Pile started even in the race of life, but by industry
and perseverence has become the owner of a well improved and productive
farm of 537 acres in a fine state of cultivation, and has one of the
best houses in the district.  He commenced life as a farmer and stock
trader, and is the owner, in connection with his farm, of a good
sistillery on Hacker's branch. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and
in politics an unswerving Democrat.
Anderson Cooper Davidson Evins Ferguson Johnson Meadows Payne Pile Sibins=
Fentress-TN Monroe-KY IN VA
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LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.J.H. Reno, Civil War Veteran, Was County Court Clerk 12 Years
J.H. RENO was born in Muhlenberg County, April 25, 1817, and is the sixth of
seven children (three boys and two girls living) born to Lewis and Sallie
(Kincheloe) Reno, natives of Culpeper County, VA, of French and Scotch-Irish
descent, respectively.  The grandfather of our subject, Lewis Reno, is said to
have been born in France.  The original name is Renault.  The grandfather kept
a hotel in Virginia, and in 1790 moved to Nelson County, KY.  About ten years
later he came to Muhlenberg County and settle near Kincheloe's Bluff on Green
River, where he entered several hundred acres of land, on which he lived the
rest of his days.  The grandfather William Kincheloe had several sons in the
Revolution; he was a native of Virginia, and moved to Nelson County about
1790, where he died.  The family moved to different parts of the State, mostly
to Muhlenberg County.  Gen. Kincheloe died on the way to Tippecanor [sic]
under Gen. Shelby, in Ohio, during the war of 1812; he lived in Muhlenberg
County.  J.H. Reno was reared on a farm until seventeen, and received a fair
common school education.  At seventeen he commenced as salesman for Edward
Rumsey, of Greenville, which he continued until elected clerk of the county
court in 1854, which position he filled for twelve years.  In 1866, he engaged
in the dry goods business, which he followed until 1872; in 1874, was
appointed collector of internal revenue for Second Kentucky District which
office he filled twenty-nine month[s].  In 1880, he located in Central City,
where he has been engaged in the general merchandise business ever since.  In
December, 1883, he was appointed deputy collector by E. Farley.  In the fall
of 1861, he was quartermaster for Eleventh Kentucky; in December was
transferred to the Fifth Division, as quartermaster; in March, 1862, resigned
and returned home.  J.H. Reno was married February 27, 1842, to Fannie Young
of Muhlenberg County, a native of Ohio County, and a daughter of Richard and
Eliza (Rumsey) Elliot.  Ten children were born to this union, four living:
Jane, wife of Lewis Martin Morleyand, of Missouri; Agness (Offett); Jessie
(Murray), residing in Louisville, and Edward.  Mr. Reno's second wife died
December 31, 1866, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and he next married,
November 11, 1868, Mary P. Martin of Bowling Green, a daughter of W.P. and
Susan (Bayly) Payne, natives of Mason County, KY, and Stafford County, VA,
respectively.  Her father was of Scotch-Irish origin.  Mr. and Mrs. Reno are
memebers of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Christian Church, respectively.
Mr. Reno is a Mason.
Reno Kincheloe Renault Shelby Rumsey Farley Young Elliot Offett Murray
Martin Payne Bayly=Culpeper-VA France Nelson Ohio MO Mason Stafford-VA
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LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.Capt. James B. Ryan Served With South; Opened Up Mud River Mine
CAPT. JAMES BUCKNER RYAN, Muhlenberg County, was born in Bath County, KY, June
24, 1838.  He is a son of Maj. Moses Ryan, who is also a native of Kentucky,
born in Mason County, about the year 1796; his wife, Dulcinea, whom he married
in 1820, was a daughter of William Payne, of Mason County.  They were the
parents of six daughters and one son, all of whom were born and educated in
Kentucky and Tennessee.  Three are now living: Mrs. D.C. Payne, of Kansas
City; Mrs. M.A. Hall of Omaha, Nev. [sic], and James B.  Moses Ryan, in 1853,
removed to Nashville, TN, where he resided until his death, which occurred in
April, 1862.  During his life-time he accumulated a large property, and was in
affluent circumstances.  James B. Ryan received a collegiate education, and is
well versed in the literature of the day, as well as in the English classics.
In 1861, he entered the Confederate army with the rand of second lieutenant,
in the First Battalion of Tennessee Cavalry, which office he resigned in 1862,
and soon after recruited a company for the Confederate service.  He was chosen
and commissioned a captain, and with his company joined the command of Gen.
John H. Morgan, with whom he served until the close of the war.  He returned
to his former home in Nashville, TN, where he sought the solitude of the wilds
of Kentucky, and entered the coal business on a limited scale, and settled on
Mud River in Muhlenberg County, where for three years his leisure time was
spent; his constant and sole companions were his gun and dog, but in this
seclusion he found the the quietude he so much craved, and spent the time in
hunting and fishing, and in the study of various subjects, from the books that
he could procure from time to time.  In 1873, having discovered that the
locality was rich in minerals and ores, he set to work assiduously to develop
the resources of that section, to which purpose he devoted every energy, and
through this means was organized the "Mud River Coal, Coke & Iron
Manufacturing Company," and since that time he has been the superintendent of
the operating force at the mines.  His wife, formerly Miss Steele, of
Muhlenberg County, is a lady of rare accomplishments; they are the parents of
one daughter, Carrie, and two sons, Herbert and Buck.  The captain is a Master
Mason of Rochester Lodge No. 270, of the order of A.F. & A.M.  Politically he
is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Bell and Everett in 1860, and has
voted on two occasions only since.  He was opposed to the secession movement,
and voted against it first, but when his adopted State went out of the Union,
he went out with it.  In religious matters he is a liberal thinker, and his
principles are based on justice and fair dealing.Ryan Payne Hall Morgan Steele=
Bath Mason MO NE TN
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LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.William Sandusky Was Distiller, Boatman, Soldier, Hotel Owner
WILLIAM H. H. SANDUSKY was born October 22, 1837, in New Geneva, Fayette Co.,
PA, and is the only child of James and Nancy (Dunum) Sandusky, who were born
and reared in Fayette County, PA.  James Sandusky was a son of Jacob Sandusky,
who married Sallie Way.  The were natives of Washington County, KY, and
Manchester, PA, respectively.  Jacob was by occupation a stonecutter and
farmer; was in the Indian wars in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana; was a brother of
Gen. Sandusky and a son of Nathaniel Sandusky, who came from Poland with nine
children (original name Sowdosko); he was president of a fur-trading company.
Subject's great-grandfather settled in Sandusky City, Ohio, while a
fur-trader.  The mother of our subject was the daughter of Abraham Dunum, a
son of Col. Dunum, of Revolutionary fame.  William H. H. Sandusky, at the age
of ten, commenced steam-boating on the Monongahela River.  In 1848, he
attended bar for his uncle, in the fall of 1848, went to New Orleans; thence
to Louisville, St. Louis and to Boonville, MO, from which place he started
across the plains with an ox-team to Salt Lake City.  At Ogden, in the winter
of 1849-50, he joined the Hudson Bay Fur Company.  In the spring of 1850, he
went to Fort Hall, and remained there until 1851; thence to American Falls on
Snake River; thence to Salmon River, where the summer was spent in trading.
While there he crried the private mail to Oregon City.  He spent the winter in
Salt Lake City, and in 1852, he made the first whisky in the Mormon city.
August 4, 1854, he was wagon master when Albert Sidney Johnson crossed Jordan
River into Salt Lake City.  In 1854 he returned to the States; first to St.
Louis and then to Cairo.  While at Cairo, he transferred the government mail
for one year.  Then engaged in steamboating until the war broke out, when he
engaged in steamboating for the government; was a scout for Gen. Lew Wallace;
was pilot of the steamboat "Chancellor, No. 2," at Belmont.  He landed the
first transport at Birds Point, MO; assisted in towing the pontoon bridge
under Gen. Fremont; was pilot of dispatch boat to Gen. Oglesby at Norfolk,
MO; was on "Lake Era, No. 2," carrying dispatches from Cairo to Paducah; went
on steamboat, "United States," and towed gunboats to the battle of Ft. Henry;
thence to Shiloh or Pittsburgh Landing.  He carried dispatches for Gen. Grant
up the Tennessee River, and while thus engaged found the body of George
Denney, of Wisconsin; was on a transfer at Cairo, and carried all government
stores to Columbus, KY, also supplies to army on Island No. 10; was in a
guerrilla fight, when Gen. Faulkner was captured at Reel Foot Lake.  Mr.
Sandusky continued thus in the government employ until the close of the war.
He was in Memphis during Forrest's raid into that city, and was severely
wounded by having a pile of cartridges thrown upon him.  Mr. Sandusky has led
an eventful life, and has all the orders he received from numerous generals
carefully preserved.  At the close of the war he went to Cairo, and engaged in
steamboating; in 1878, he moved to Central City, KY, where he has been engaged
in the hotel business, and is now building one of the finest hotels between
Louisville and Paducah.  In 1858 he married Katie Mangin, of Cairo, a native
of Belfast, Ireland; to them was born one child, Alonzo (deceased).  Mrs.
Sandusky died in 1864, and Mr. S. in 1876 married Miss F. A. Logan, of Marion,
KY, and a daughter of J.B. and Lucy (Payne) Logan.  To this union one child
was born, Geneva.  Mr. Sandusky is a member of the K. of H.
Sandusky Dunum Way Sowdosko Wallace Oglesby Denny Faulkner Mangin Logan Payne=
Fayette-PA Washington Poland OH Ireland
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Pulaski County
Lyttleton B. Cook, M.D., a native of Russell County, KY, was born December
8, 1855, and is a son of Edmund and Mary (Simpson) Cook.  Edmund Cook was
born in North Carolina in 1810, and is a well-to-do farmer in Russell
County, KY; he is a son of John Cook, who married Mary Green of the family
of Gen. Green, and moved from North Carolina to Woodford County, KY, in the
early settlement, Mary (Simpson) Cook, born 1818, a native of Kentucky, is a
daughter of Avington and Lucinda (Payne) Simpson, Dr. L.B. Cook is the
eighth in a family of nine children, viz: Dr. John Loy, deceased, Dr. A.S.,
Edward Green, deceased; Dr. William H., Lucinda Frances, Mary E., C. Wayne,
L.B. and Lee V.  Dr. L.B. Cook received his education in the common schools
and at the College of Arts, Lexington, KY.  He is of German origin, his
great-grandfather, Christopher Cook, and wife, emigrating from Germany to
Orange County, North Carolina, before the Revolutionary war.  He read
medicine under his brother, Dr. A.S. Cook and attended medical lectures at
the University of Louisville, KY, where he graduated in 1870.  He
subsequently located at Burnside, KY, where he has since resided.  November
21, 1883, he married Lelia B. Owens, a native of Lincoln County, KY, and a
daughter of Samuel Owens.  One child has been born to them, Anna Lee.  Mrs.
Cook is a member of the Christian Church.  Dr. Cook is a Presbyterian, a
Master Mason and a K. of H.  Politically he is a Democrat.
Cook Green Owens Payne Simpson =
Lincoln-KY Russell-KY Woodford-KY Orange-NC NC Germany
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Webster Co.
JOHN A. BASSETT, M.D. was born in Bracken County, Ky., March 18, 1841, son
of Elijah and Mary O. (Pearl) Bassett, the former a native of Bracken
County, Ky., the latter of Fauquier County, Va., and both of English
origin.  Elijah Bassett was married in his native county.  When a youth, he
was employed in the county clerk's office with Gen. Payne for several
years.  When he attained his majority he was appointed deputy sheriff under
his father, and held that position about four years. In 1841 or 1842 he
moved to Hopkins County, Ky., where he bought a farm, and engaged in
farming for five or six years.  In 1847 he returned to Bracken County, and
was appointed sheriff, which office he held for several years.  He then
engaged in general merchandising and in the tobacco business at Brookville,
until December, 1855, when he again removed to Hopkins County, Ky., where
he engaged in farming until 1862.  He then came to Providence, Webster Co.,
Ky., where he resided until his death in October, 1864, in his fifty-second
year.  He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.  Our subject, at the age
of eighteen, commenced the study of medicine, under his uncle, Dr. James
Bassett, of Providence, and while pursuing his medical studies taught
school a part of the time for about three years.  In the winter of 1863 and
1864, he attended the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, Mo. In 1864,
he returned to Providence, where he has since practiced his profession.  He
graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville, with
the class of 1874-75.  The Doctor was also interested in the drug business
at Providence for about two years.  He was first married December 31, 1868,
to Miss Virginia F. Wetzell, a native of Providence, who bore him two
children, one of whom - a daughter - is now living.  Mrs. Virginia F.
Bassett died January 20, 1871; she was a member of the United Baptist
Church.  Dr. Bassett's second marriage was November 13, 1872, to Miss
Martha F. Givens, a native of Hopkins County, Ky.  Six children have
blessed their union, of whom three sons are now living.  The Doctor and
wife are members of the United Baptist Church.  He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, Select Master's degree, and has served his lodge as
W.M. and in various other official capacities.  He is a Democrat.
Bassett Pearl Payne Wetzell Givens=
Bracken Fauquier-VA Hopkins MO Louisville-Jefferson